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money I did and I am deaf in my Ears by my head being Bursted open and broked and noth ing for being flicted like I am I claim damage I do Government I have tryed to help myself and I am Broked down by the name of Government Eliza McGill.

fell into spasms that ended his life on the next day. The father was cast into prison, but in consequence of his qualms of conscience be came seriously sick in three days and was re leased. He was never re-arrested and still lives in Jerusalem.

THE remarkable role played by the oath in the mental and social make-up of the Moham medan, as also its importance in legal processes of the Orient, is known to all Eastern travelers. In the Mittheilungen, published by the German Palestine Society, Bruno Hentschel reports a singular incident that recently occurred under his own eyes in Jerusalem, and that throws a characteristic light on the processes of Turkish law and on the importance attached to the oath by the Moslem. The event is the following : At the Bab Chan ex-Zet, near the Hospiz of the St. John's Order in Jerusalem, there lives a Moslem, originally from Damascus, whose only son, in play with his companions, had begun to quarrel with them. The latter made complaint to the father, who on his part took a very se rious view of the matter and in the presence of fellow Mohammedans cried out aloud : " Allihi ittalak min et-talate lesim atbatak," i. e. " If I do not kill thee, I will divorce myself three times from my wife." As he had but one wife, he, by his oath, would have been compelled to di vorce her and marry twice again and divorce these wives also. After he had spoken these words, he began to think of the trouble he had thereby brought upon himself and his family. As this son was the only child left of seven children born to him and his wife, he regarded it as out of the question to kill the boy. And yet he knew what would be the consequences if he did not keep his oath; he would have been ostracized by his fellow believers. In his despair he applied to a Moslem the ologian and asked for his advice. The reply stated that it would not be absolutely necessary for him to kill the boy, but that it would be necessary for him to show that he was ready to carry out the oath by sharpening a butcher knife in the presence of his son and with the knife to make a cut into the neck sufficient to cause the blood to flow. This the unfortunate father undertook to do, and when the knife was put upon the boy's neck, the latter through fear

IT was Darwin who discovered that the dog howled at night only when the moon was shin ing, because then images of former days were recalled to mind. It was also this same scientist, who said that the reason why a dog would turn around on a rug several times, before reclining, was due to instinct, as in his wild state, this was necessary to tramp down the weeds on the prairie. With this in mind no doubt our Iowa courts have just decided a case of Van Bergen <'. Eulberg. The following is the opinion by Ladd : The suit was for damages resulting from the bite of a dog. " That the injured girl threw sticks and stones at the dog several months before she was bitten furnished no excuse. A dog has no right to brood over its wrongs, and remember in malice. The only defence available to the dog's master, is the doing of the unlawful act at the time of the attack, by the person injured." With such a state of facts and such a decision before one it will be difficult to own a dog in Iowa, where he is taxed and has further and divers other faults and conditions to comply with. The learned judge may be superior to most of us, when it comes to technical law, but on mat ter or this kind we believe he speaks, not as an expert, but ex-cathedra. How does he surmise that the dog cannot brood over his wrongs, /'. e., if he has any? Why cannot the dog treasure up malice? Try him a few times and see if he does not remember a kindness, and never for gets a wrong or an injury. It is evident that the judge has had no dealings with dogs, and he may come, to be sorry some time that he has not. Not long ago a Norwegian was sued for shooting a dog, which he had tormented a few times, and when the big bull dog came at him with mouth open and teeth set, the son of Thor thought, " here to save myself I must do short work," and he laid the dog out with a well di rected bullet from his gun. On the trial the jlaintiff's attorney suggested that it would have эееп better and more humane to have used the